The Rise and Fall of Kamala Harris

After several reports that her campaign was failing, Kamala Harris formally withdrew from the 2020 Presidential race on Tuesday, December 3rd, 2019.

Kamala Harris’s campaign kicked off with a resounding boom in Oakland, CA on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day back in January. Roughly 20,000 people attended her announcement rally that day, and she was soon regarded as a force to be reckoned with in the 2020 Presidential Primary. Yet here we stand in December of the same year and she’s already out of the race. How can things change so drastically in less than a year? The easy answer is, given Harris’s identity, her race and gender. There’s no doubting that misgynoir still heavily influences our political process and daily lives in America, thus making it even more difficult for a black woman such as Senator Harris to be elected to the highest office in the land. There’s also no doubting that Billionaires have an unfair advantage in their candidacies for President as Harris alluded to in her video announcement. However, Kamala conquered these savage beasts early on in the race as she was polling amongst the top tier candidates in the race. The question now must be, what changed?

Before she even announced, the Democratic Party’s establishment was fawning over the mere…